1882 in Canada

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Events from the year 1882 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria ^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
• Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
• Parliament – 4th (until 18 May)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (until September 29) then James Cox Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem (until June 13) then Robert Beaven
• Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
• Premier of New Brunswick – John James Fraser (until May 25) then Daniel Lionel Hanington
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Simon Hugh Holmes (until May 23) then John Sparrow David Thompson (May 25 to July 18) then William Thomas Pipes (from August 3)
• Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
• Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (until July 31) then Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (until September 29) then James Cox Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney

Events

• May 8 – Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
• May 17 – Provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established between Manitoba and British Columbia: the districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabaska
• May 25 – John Sparrow David Thompson becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Simon H. Holmes.
• June – New Brunswick election
• June 20
  • Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority.
  • Nova Scotia election
• June 13 – Robert Beaven becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem.
• July 20 – British Columbia election
• July 31 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.
• August 3 – William T. Pipes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Sparrow David Thompson.
• December 30 – The Royal Society of Canada is founded.

Full date unknown

• Daniel Hanington becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Fraser.
• John Ware, a Texas cowboy, moves to Alberta. He introduces longhorn cattle into Canada and pioneers the development of rodeo.
• Newfoundland election
• The North-West Mounted Police (which later became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) established a post in 1882 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) have since established their main training academy there, which is called "Depot", or Depot Division.
• The North Bay Police Service is founded.

Sport

• October 21 – The Canadian Rugby Football Union is founded. {Reference is needed. The link cited as well as the Rugby Canada Wiki note different years (1880 and 1884 respectively)}

Births

Louis St. Laurent

January to June

• January 8 – David Milne, painter, printmaker and writer (d.1953)
• February 1 – Louis St. Laurent, politician and 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1973)
• February 2 – Geoffrey O'Hara, composer, singer and music professor (d.1967)
• February 4 – E. J. Pratt, poet (d.1964)
• February 11 – John Queen, politician (d.1946)
• March 6 – Barbara Hanley, first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada (d.1959)
• April 18 – Isabel Meighen, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985)
• May 26 – Charles Edward Bothwell, politician and barrister (d.1967)
• June 9 – Robert Kerr, sprinter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1963)

July to December

• July 16 – Edward Earle, Canadian-born American actor (d. 1972 in the United States)
• July 19 – Sarah Ramsland, politician and first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (d.1964)
• October 3 – A. Y. Jackson, painter, one of the Group of Seven (d.1974)
• December 18 – Albert James Bradshaw, politician (d.1956)
• December 25 – John Stewart McDiarmid, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1965)

Deaths

• February 1 – Maurice Laframboise, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1821)
• March 25 – Charles-René-Léonidas d'Irumberry de Salaberry, militia officer (b.1820)
• August 7 – Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, poet and novelist (b.1824)
• September 15 – Jacques Philippe Lantier, businessman, author and politician (b.1814)
• December 9 – Hugh Allan, businessman (b.1810)

Historical documents

Prime Minister Macdonald explains near-starvation policy to control Indigenous peoples ^[2]

Prime Minister Macdonald welcomes Chinese as CPR labourers, but not as settlers ^[3]

MP tells House of Commons that land policy in N.W.T. should favour settler over speculator ^[4]

Alberta ranchers endure hunger while struggling through multi-day snowstorm ^[5]

"To spread the light and sow the seed of Unionism" - Labour newspaper Trades Union Advocate says Toronto labour parade roused union enthusiasm ^[6]

Ontario School of Art teaches freehand and model drawing, geometry, perspective, advanced freehand, ornamental design, watercolours, and oil ^[7]

References

1. "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. House of Commons Debates, 4th Parliament, 4th Session; Vol. 1, pg. 15. Accessed 8 October 2019
3. Canada; Parliament; House of Commons, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (1882), pg. 1477. Accessed 5 October 2019
4. Speech Delivered by John Charlton, M.P., on the Government Land Policy in the North-West; From Official Debates; House of Commons, Session 1882 (1882). Accessed 5 October 2019
5. Alexander Staveley Hill, From Home to Home; Autumn Wanderings in the Northwest[...] (1885), pgs. 195-212. Accessed 5 October 2019
6. "The Demonstration--Its Success and Teachings" Trades Union Advocate (July 27, 1882), pg. 2, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 1 September 2024
7. Ontario School of Art (re-opening October 10, 1882), Joseph Brant and family fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 16 December 2022